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This year's awards are divided into competitive sections while attempting to give them more prominence in the Festival campaign and program.

The Best Film Award will be presented to the winner of the Official Competition line-up which includes Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths, Michael Winterbottom's Everyday and Sally Potter's Ginger and Rosa.

The jury picking a winner from the 12-strong Competition titles – chosen by BFI head of exhibition and festival director Clare Stewart together with the festival's programming team – is headed by president David Hare, screenwriter, playwright, film and theatre director.

Other titles vying for Hare and his jury's attention are Michel Franco's After Lucia, David Ayer's End of Watch, Rama Burshtein's Fill The Void, Francois Ozon's In the House, It Was The Son directed by Daniele Ciprì, Cate Shortland's Lore, Midnight’s Children by Deepa Mehta, Pablo Larraín's No and Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone.

This year's Sutherland Award will be presented to the winner of the best first feature and the Grierson prize will be presented to the winning film in the documentary competition section.

Presiding over the jury for Sutherland nod will be the former Edinburgh International Film Festival director Hannah McGill with fellow jurors novelist Sebastian Faulks, filmmaker David Yates, Warp Films produce Robin Gutch, and stage and screen actress Louise Brealey.

The Grierson jury is presided over by documentary filmmaker Roger Graef who is joined by BBC world affairs editor John Simpson, vice chairman of the Grierson Trust Emma Hindley, head of documentary commissioning at the BBC Charlotte Moore and documentary filmmaker Morgan Matthews.

Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns' The Central Park Five, Alex Gibney's Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Amy Berg's West of Memphis and Sarah Gavron's Village at the End of the World are among the challengers for the nod.

There will also be a best British newcomer nod presented with jury president Harry Potter producer David Heyman and fellow jurors Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman, author Kazuo Ishiguru and director Eran Creevy mulling the challengers.